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Offline TTS in 2026? (lemmy.world)

submitted 7 months ago by KarlLimbo@lemmy.world to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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so i yes, espeak exists and still sounds terrible even worse than picoTTS (last update 4 yrs ago?). so what else is there? i look at mimic3 and it says they are dead and one should go for piper here: https://github.com/MycroftAI/mimic3 the link to piper followed I get: https://github.com/rhasspy/piper "This repository was archived by the owner on Oct 6, 2025. It is now read-only. "

ok, so coqui? https://github.com/coqui-ai/TTS no update in over 12 months..how bad can it be? https://coqui.ai/ ...great it is a page for gambling now.

so, what are you using? gTTS is not offline.

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[–] CubitOom@infosec.pub 9 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Here is the repo for the piper I use, https://github.com/OHF-Voice/piper1-gpl

For my phone, I use this tts engine, https://k2-fsa.github.io/sherpa/onnx/tts/apk-engine.html

[–] damnthefilibuster@lemmy.world 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

What’s your workflow on your phone?

[–] CubitOom@infosec.pub 4 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

I have kaldi auto updated with my preferred voice when ever there is a new release via obtainium.

I set kaldi as my tts engine, and I disabled the google TTS.

Then anytime I use TTS on my phone it uses kaldi.

Its been really great for my preferred eBook reader (Librera) so I can do chores and read at the same time.

[–] damnthefilibuster@lemmy.world 3 points 7 months ago

That’s an excellent setup! I’ll try to replicate it when I get home!